Bug#250007: Powerpc G4 Installation Report
clone 250007 -1
reassign -1 yaboot-installer
retitle -1 increase boot delay
severity -1 minor
thanks
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:42:05PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
[not sure about all your issues, I'll reply to a few bits I know about]
> Partition Hard drives - I was wary of mucking up my sid install which is
> my production workstation and so didn't explore too deeply but there
> didn't seem to be the option to partition /dev/hda17 (which I'd set
> aside for this install) to separate /var /usr. I suspect I didn't look
> deep enough ;)
Don't you just need to delete that partition and create some new ones,
one of which is /var and one /usr?
> Minor points - My system has OSX, sid and now sarge installed. Yaboot
> was automatically configured to boot OSX or sarge but
> 1. There is no delay setting in /etc/yaboot.conf to allow one to
> choose OSX - unless your v quick ;)
The delay is three seconds (yaboot uses the value of timeout if delay
isn't set). I'll bump it up to five seconds for the Linux/OS X/etc.
choice and ten seconds for the second-stage Linux choice. Does that
sound OK?
> 2. It would have been nice to have a boot option for the sid
> installation automatically configured - definitely a low priority ;)
Current daily builds have this; you'll get an hda16-Linux option or
similar at the second stage.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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